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Sprint Nextel Corp (S): Today's Featured Telecommunications Winner

Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model

Sprint Nextel (
S) pushed the Telecommunications industry higher today making it today's featured telecommunications winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.7%. By the end of trading, Sprint Nextel rose $0.10 (1.4%) to $7.32 on light volume. Throughout the day, 26,936,798 shares of Sprint Nextel exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 47,464,400 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $7.23-$7.32 after having opened the day at $7.24 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $7.22. Other companies within the Telecommunications industry that increased today were:
Deltathree (
DDDC), up 21.9%,
Blonder Tongue Laboratories (
BDR), up 9.5%,
Phazar Corporation (
ANTP), up 9.4% and
Maxcom Telecomunicaciones S.A.B. de C.V (
MXT), up 8.4%.

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Sprint Nextel Corporation, through its subsidiaries, offers a range of wireless and wireline communications products and services to individual consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Sprint Nextel has a market cap of $21.7 billion and is part of the technology sector. Shares are up 27.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Sprint Nextel a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Sprint Nextel as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, increase in net income and revenue growth. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including disappointing return on equity, weak operating cash flow and generally higher debt management risk.